A histological investigation of the occurrence of non-reproductive female bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus in the Mediterranean Sea.

abstract：:The retinal development of the gilthead seabream Sparus aurata has been analysed from late embryonic development to juvenile stages using classical histological and immunohistological methods. Five significant phases were established. Phases 1 and 2 comprise the late embryonic and hatching stages, respectively. The re...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Pavón-Muñoz T,Bejarano-Escobar R,Blasco M,Martín-Partido G,Francisco-Morcillo J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, female preferences and behavioural isolation were estimated in a pair of allopatric sister species, Etheostoma duryi and Etheostoma flavum. Dichotomous mate preference trials were conducted to determine whether females prefer to associate with conspecific over heterospecific males and free-spawning assa...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Martin MD,Mendelson TC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, life-history traits (maximum and average size, size at maturity and fecundity) of two congeneric smooth-hounds, Mustelus mustelus and Mustelus punctulatus, which share a geographical distribution and experience a similar fishing exploitation, were estimated and compared between species. The results indi...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Riginella E,Correale V,Marino IAM,Rasotto MB,Vrbatovic A,Zane L,Mazzoldi C

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ambient temperature modulates reproductive processes, especially in poikilotherms such as teleosts. Consequently, global warming is expected to impact the reproductive function of fish, which has implications for wild population dynamics, fisheries and aquaculture. In this extensive review spanning tropical and cold-w...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Alix M,Kjesbu OS,Anderson KC

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration behaviour and estuarine mortality of cultivated Atlantic salmon Salmo salar smolts in a 16 km long estuary were studied using two methods: (1) acoustic telemetry and (2) group tagging in combination with trap nets. Progression rates of surviving individuals through the estuary were relatively slow using both...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Vollset KW,Mahlum S,Davidsen JG,Skoglund H,Barlaup BT

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a flow-cytometric cell cycle analysis method to assess instantaneous growth rate of whole larvae of the Australian barramundi Lates calcarifer was developed and validated. High-resolution DNA measurements of either fresh, frozen or RNAlater-preserved larvae (gap0-gap1, G(0) -G(1), coefficient of variati...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Domingos JA,Fromm P,Smith-Keune C,Jerry DR

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potamotrygon marquesi, sp. nov., is described and compared with other species of Potamotrygon occurring in the Amazon Basin. The identity of this new species is supported by an extensive external and internal morphological study including coloration pattern, squamation, skeleton and ventral lateral-line canals. Morpho...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Capretz Batista da Silva JP,Silva Loboda T

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight farmed Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus were tagged with temperature and depth transmitters inserted in chub mackerels Scomber colias to characterize their digestive activity, feeding physiology and behaviour in captivity. Results obtained in the experiment can be used to optimize daily T. thynnus feeding s...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Díez G,Moreno G,Galaz T,Dagorn L,Murua J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All extant holocephalans (Chimaeroidei) have lost the ability to make individual teeth, as tooth germs are not part of the embryonic development of the dental plates or of their continuous growth. Instead, a hypermineralized dentine with a unique mineral, whitlockin, is specifically distributed within a dentine framew...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Smith M,Manzanares E,Underwood C,Healy C,Clark B,Johanson Z

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food searching behaviour in a group of individually tagged 1-5 kg Atlantic cod Gadus morhua was studied in a set of three experiments in a sea cage with two underwater platforms, where restricted amounts of food was delivered several times per day during an acoustic training period. It took c. 1 week to train 20 naïve...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Björnsson B,Karlsson H,Macrander A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assigning relative importance of spawning and nursery habitats for threatened and endangered teleosts, such as those seen in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), relies on the proper identification of the early life-history stages of the species of concern. Here, sequencing a portion of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control regi...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： McKenzie JL,Alvarado Bremer JR

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The age, growth and maturity of bonnetheads Sphyrna tiburo inhabiting the estuarine and coastal waters of the western North Atlantic Ocean (WNA) from Onslow Bay, North Carolina, south to West Palm Beach, Florida, were examined. Vertebrae were collected and aged from 329 females and 217 males ranging in size from 262 t...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Frazier BS,Driggers WB 3rd,Adams DH,Jones CM,Loefer JK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic study to support morphometric analyses was used to improve the description and validate the Patagonian seahorse Hippocampus patagonicus (Syngnathidae) on the basis of a large number of specimens collected in the type locality (San Antonio Bay, Patagonia, Argentina). DNA sequence data (from the cytochrome b r...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： González R,Dinghi P,Corio C,Medina A,Maggioni M,Storero L,Gosztonyi A

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shoaling and sexual behaviour of wild-type male and female white cloud mountain minnow Tanichthys albonubes were measured in the presence of the red fluorescent transgenic conspecifics under laboratory conditions. Wild-type female test fish showed no significant preference, whereas wild-type male test fish preferred t...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Jiang P,Bai JJ,Ye X,Jian Q,Chen M,Chen XQ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chaetostoma chimu sp. nov. is described from 119 specimens collected in the Andean foothills of the Orinoco River in Colombia. The new species can be distinguished from congeners by a combination of characters, including shape of cheek odontodes, presence of a supraoccipital excrescence, sexual dimorphism characters a...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Urbano-Bonilla A,Ballen GA

更新日期：2020-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:After 80 years of misidentifications, the analysis of the holotype of Corydoras arcuatus plus several non-type specimens attributed to this species allowed its recognition and also revealed a new species, both sharing the following diagnostic features: a long, arched, continuous black stripe that runs parallel to the ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Tencatt LFC,Lima FCT,Britto MR

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new loach Oreonectes guilinensis sp. nov. is described from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It is the second surface-dwelling fish identified in the genus Oreonectes after the type species Oreonectes platycephalus. This new species can be distinguished from other species within the genus by the combination ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Huang JQ,Yang J,Wu ZQ,Zhao YH

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to compare American eel Anguilla rostrata life history in two inland river systems in Arkansas, U.S.A., that ultimately discharge into the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River and the Red-Atchafalaya catchments. From 21 June 2011 to 24 April 2014, 238 yellow-phase A. rostrata were captur...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Cox CA,Quinn JW,Lewis LC,Adams SR,Adams GL

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Darters (Percidae: Etheostomatinae), a species-rich group of North American freshwater fishes, vary in the presence of a premaxillary fraenum, a strip of skin that connects the premaxillary bones to the snout, and it is hypothesized that this trait is a trophic adaptation to particular substrata. Ancestral state recon...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Ciccotto PJ,Mendelson TC

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to evaluate the potential pathogenicity of the bacterium Flavobacterium columnare on rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss eyed eggs. Survival to hatching was unaffected by the inclusion in the incubation water of either 300 colony-forming units (CFU) ml(-1) or 3000 CFU ml(-1) of F. columnare at e...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Barnes ME,Bergmann D,Jacobs J,Gabel M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between two species of gadoid and a shrimp stock was studied in a 40 km long two-armed fjord in north-west Iceland. On the basis of acoustic and trawl surveys in 2005 and 2006, immature cod Gadus morhua and haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus were found to migrate to the inner part of the fjord in late su...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Björnsson B,Reynisson P,Solmundsson J,Valdimarsson H

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The length and mass ratio, diet and isotopic composition of Aplochiton zebra and Aplochiton taeniatus inhabiting a Salmo trutta-invaded and a S. trutta-free lake in southern Patagonia were compared. Results indicate that S. trutta exercises important trophic interference over A. zebra and A. taeniatus, causing changes...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Elgueta A,González J,Ruzzante DE,Walde SJ,Habit E

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduced Gambusia holbrooki in a natural lagoon of southern Spain consisted of two age groups: 1992 cohort, 7-11 months old and 1993 cohort, <4 months old. In the 1992 cohort, females grew even during the gestation period at about 0.30 mm day-1. In the 1993 cohort, females displayed a high growth rate (0.55 mm day-1...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Fernandez-Delgado C,Rossomanno S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gravel pit lakes are novel ecosystems that can be colonized by fish through natural or anthropogenic pathways. In central Europe, many of them are managed by recreational anglers and thus experience regular fish stocking. However, also unmanaged gravel pits may be affected by stocking, either through illegal fish intr...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Matern S,Emmrich M,Klefoth T,Wolter C,Nikolaus R,Wegener N,Arlinghaus R

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Round gobies Neogobius melanostomus were observed readily consuming soft tissue from carcasses of larger fishes under both laboratory and field conditions. Consumption normally progressed in a typical sequence, starting with soft and easily accessible tissues such as the eyes, followed by puncture of the abdominal cav...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Polačik M,Jurajda P,Blažek R,Janáč M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable isotope (δ(13)C and δ(15)N) and gut content analyses were used to investigate size-related feeding habits of four reef fishes (the beaugregory Stegastes leucostictus, the french grunt Haemulon flavolineatum, the schoolmaster snapper Lutjanus apodus and the yellowtail snapper Ocyurus chrysurus) inhabiting an off...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Vaslet A,Phillips DL,France CA,Feller IC,Baldwin CC

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the complementary DNA (cDNA) of Japanese pufferfish Takifugu rubripes tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) was cloned by reverse-transcription PCR. The open reading frame of the TRAIL consisted of 870 bases. The deduced amino-acid sequence of the TRAIL showed a high homology ...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Li JF,Ai HX,Zhang J,Du MX,Zhang Z,Zhang JX,Zhang SQ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coping style is defined as a set of individual physiological and behavioural characteristics that are consistent across time and context. In the zebrafish Danio rerio, as well as in many other animals, several covariations have been established among behavioural, physiological and molecular responses. Nonetheless, not...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Alfonso S,Peyrafort M,Cousin X,Bégout ML

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal and ontogenetic shifts in the diet of Arctic charr Salvelinus alpinus were studied in a deep, ultra-oligotrophic lake in subarctic Finland from both stomach contents and the stable carbon (delta(13)C) and nitrogen (delta(15)N) isotope compositions of muscle and liver tissues. Both diet and isotope results ind...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Eloranta AP,Kahilainen KK,Jones RI

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pencil cardinal Epigonus denticulatus is a small deep-water fish inhabiting continental slopes usually between 300 m and 600 m depth. We report the first record of E. denticulatus in the Azores archipelago, where one specimen was found floating by fisherman off Faial island. Meristic and morphometric characters ar...

journal_title：Journal of fish biology

authors： Catarino D,Stefanni S,Porteiro FM,Rosa A,Giacomello E

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00